Business View Magazine | February 2020

101 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2020 THE MESQUI TE METRO A I RPORT that includes a new logo for the Airport FBO services. Should the Airport wish to expand its footprint sometime in the future, Pratt says that there are about 45 acres that it currently owns that are developable. “If we’re looking at additional land, we’d have to go to the east side of the facility,” he notes. “There are about 260 acres on that side that would be ideal for airport development, but the state has a planned extension to the George Bush Turnpike, or State Highway 190, that will go right through that property, which cuts it down to about 70 acres that would be usable for our purposes.” Those future purposes might include a city-owned industrial district adjacent to the Airport, with high-tech, aviation-related development, creating both good-paying jobs while bolstering the City’s tax base. “There’s just a tremendous amount of potential here,” Pratt adds. “And the biggest advantage that we have going forward, over a lot of our